Day: May 25, 2018

Keep calm and get your stoic on: more people today are heeding the advice than perhaps ever before. Stoicism has recently been described as one of the best “mind hacks” ever invented. Amazingly, it is back, more popular today than ever, in a series of fast-growing internet communities. By Dr. Matthew Sharpe / 07.12.2017 Associate Professor of Philosophy Deakin University From Cynicism[…]

Kunstmuseum St Gallen/Wikimedia Commons If the thought of undergoing surgery fills you with dread, spare a thought for your forebears. By Dr. Adam Taylor / 05.18.2017 Director of the Critical Anatomy Learning Centre Senior Lecturer in Anatomy Lancaster University Surgeries and treatments come and go. A new BMJ guideline, for example, makes “strong recommendations” against the use[…]

Pexels Thankfully, defleshing bones has fallen out of fashion. By Dr. Yvonne Inall / 12.30.2016 Research Assistant in Archaeology University of Hull It might not be something you want to think about very often, but it turns out that the way we treat our dead in the modern age is heavily influenced by the way[…]

A mass burial of battle victims from the Xiongnu period in Mongolia. The Xiongnu warriors are linked to the nomadic people who would later become known as the Huns. Photo: BBC News By Ivan Dikov / 05.11.2018 The Justinian Plague of 541 – 542 AD, which may have killed up to 25 million people, likely originated in Asia,[…]

Wellcome Trust/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA At Ebbsfleet, in northeast Kent, archaeologists have finally uncovered the site where JuliusCaesar’s fleet landed in 54 BCE By Dr. Andrew Fitzpatrick / 11.29.2017 Research Associate University of Leicester During the nine-year-long Battle for Gaul, Julius Caesar fought his way across northwest Europe. He invaded Britain twice; in 55BC, and again in 54BC. But while archaeologists have found evidence of the[…]